James Van Der Beek Quotes
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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If you can't be direct, why be?
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living.
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I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.
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I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
